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Aetobatus narinari (Euphrasen, 1790)
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Aetobatus narinari
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Aetobatus narinari

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Overview
Main identification features
  • snout: narrow, projecting
  • back: black + white spots
  • tail: long, 2-6 spines
Head squarish with protruding, rounded snout; teeth in 1 series of plates; large triangular "wings" with curved tips (pectoral fin flaps); tail very long and slender with 2-6 barbed spines at base.

Dark grey to black with numerous white spots above, white below.

Size: disc width to 250 cm.

Habitat: often sighted alone or in small groups cruising around the perimeters of reefs, common in estuaries.

Depth: 1-80 m.

Cosmopolitan in tropical to warm temperate seas; southern Baja to the lower 3/4 of the Gulf of California to Ecuador, all the oceanic islands except Clipperton.


Attributes
Abundance: Common.
Cites: Not listed.
Climate Zone: Northern Subtropical (Cortez Province + Sinaloan Gap); Northern Tropical (Mexican Province to Nicaragua + Revillagigedos); Equatorial (Costa Rica to Ecuador + Galapagos, Clipperton, Cocos, Malpelo).
Depth Range Max: 80 m.
Depth Range Min: 1 m.
Diet: octopus/squid/cuttlefish; mobile benthic gastropods/bivalves; mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs); mobile benthic worms.
Eastern Pacific Range: Northern limit=30; Southern limit=-4; Western limit=-115; Eastern limit=-78; Latitudinal range=34; Longitudinal range=37.
Egg Type: Live birth; No pelagic larva.
Feeding Group: Carnivore.
FishBase Habitat: Bentho-Pelagic.
Global Endemism: Circumtropical ( Indian + Pacific + Atlantic Oceans); East Pacific + Atlantic (East +/or West); Transisthmian (East Pacific + Atlantic of Central America); East Pacific + all Atlantic (East+West); All Pacific (West + Central + East); TEP non-endemic; "Transpacific" (East + Central &/or West Pacific); All species.
Habitat: Estuary; Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom); Sand & gravel; Soft bottom (mud, sand,gravel, beach, estuary & mangrove); Water column.
Inshore Offshore: Inshore; Inshore Only.
IUCN Red List: Data deficient; Listed.
Length Max: 250 cm.
Regional Endemism: Island (s); Continent; Continent + Island (s); Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) non-endemic; Eastern Pacific non-endemic; All species.
Residency: Resident.
Salinity: Brackish; Marine.
Water Column Position: Bottom; Mid Water; Near Bottom; Bottom + water column;


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References
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Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | Catalog of Fishes( genus , species ) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa

Elasmobranchii (sharks and rays) > Myliobatiformes (Stingrays) > Aetobatidae (Pacific eagle rays)
Etymology: Aetobatus: Greek, aetos = eagle + Greek, batis, batidos = a ray (Raja sp.) (Ref. 45335 ) .

Issue
Status of Aetobatus latirostris Duméril, 1861 requires further investigation. Species information (common names) should be linked to correct species (see Ref. 11496 3).

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Marine; brackish; benthopelagic; amphidromous (Ref. 51243 ); depth range 1 - 80 m (Ref. 9710 ). Subtropical; 36°N - 24°S, 98°W - 15°E

Distribution Countries | FAO areas | Ecosystems | Occurrences | Point map | Introductions | Faunafri

Western Atlantic and probably Eastern Atlantic. Indo-Pacific species refer to Aetobatus ocellatus ; Eastern Pacific species refers to A. laticeps .

Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: L m 107.4 , range 110 - 120 cm
Max length : 230 cm WD male/unsexed; (Ref. 114953 ); common length : 140 cm WD male/unsexed; (Ref. 114953 ); max. published weight: 230.0 kg (Ref. 7251 )

Short description Morphology | Morphometrics

Dorsal spines (total): 0; Dorsal soft rays (total): 0; Anal spines : 0; Anal soft rays : 0. An eagleray with a long snout, flat and rounded like a duck's bill, a thick head, and a pectoral disc with sharply curved, angular corners, and no caudal fin; jaws usually with single row of flat, chevron-shaped teeth (Ref. 5578 ). Each tooth a crescent-shaped plate joined into a band (Ref. 26938 ). Numerous white spots on black or bluish disc; white below (Ref. 5578 ). Long whiplike tail, with a long spine near the base, behind small dorsal fin. No spines on disk (Ref. 7251 ).

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

Commonly found in coastal habitats to at least 60 m depth (Ref. 114953 ). Swims close to the surface, occasionally leaping out of the water, or close to the bottom (Ref. 3175 ). Frequently forming large schools during the non-breeding season (Ref. 7251 ). Feeds on polychaetes, bivalves, gastropods, cepahlopods, shrimps and small fishes (Ref. 114953 ). Ovoviviparous (Ref. 50449 ). Bears young in litters of 2-4 (Ref. 26938 , 114953 ).

Life cycle and mating behavior Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae

Exhibit ovoviparity (aplacental viviparity), with embryos feeding initially on yolk, then receiving additional nourishment from the mother by indirect absorption of uterine fluid enriched with mucus, fat or protein through specialised structures (Ref. 50449 ). Bears up to 4 young (Ref. 5578 , 6871 , 37816 ). Width at birth 17-35 cm (Ref. 37816 ). According to Uchida et al (1990) (Ref. 51119 ) 'the male chases the female in mid water, then nibbles on her dorsal surface. The female stops swimming to begin copulation. The male bites the female on a pectoral fin and bends one clasper forward, then attempts an abdomen to abdomen copulation with either clasper, usually mid-water' (Ref. 49562 ). Copulation lasted for 20 seconds to 1 minute (Ref. 49562 ).

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Last, P.R., W.T. White, M.R. de Carvalho, B. Séret, M.F.W. Stehmann and G.J.P. Naylor , 2016. Rays of the world. CSIRO Publishing, Comstock Publishing Associates. i-ix + 1-790. (Ref. 114953 )

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435 )

  Endangered (EN)  (A2bd); Date assessed: 28 July 2020

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361 )

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Traumatogenic (Ref. 4690 )





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Preferred temperature (Ref. 123201 ): 22.3 - 29, mean 27.5 °C (based on 4014 cells). Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804 ):  PD 50 = 0.6250   [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high]. Bayesian length-weight: a=0.01000 (0.00244 - 0.04107), b=3.04 (2.81 - 3.27), in cm total length, based on all LWR estimates for this body shape (Ref. 93245 ). Trophic level (Ref. 69278 ):  4.2   ±0.1 se; based on diet studies. Resilience (Ref. 120179 ):  Very Low, minimum population doubling time more than 14 years (tm=4-6; Fec=1-2). Prior r = 0.06, 95% CL = 0.04 - 0.10, Based on 1 stock assessment. Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153 ):  Very high vulnerability (85 of 100). Price category (Ref. 80766 ):   Medium . Nutrients (Ref. 124155 ):  Calcium = 9.92 [1.89, 44.45] mg/100g; Iron = 0.495 [0.123, 1.361] mg/100g; Protein = 22 [17, 27] %; Omega3 = 0.253 [0.077, 0.713] g/100g; Selenium = 25.2 [7.7, 73.8] μg/100g; VitaminA = 8.16 [2.83, 22.84] μg/100g; Zinc = 0.526 [0.255, 0.991] mg/100g (wet weight);

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